[daros]

Sorry guys for the long delay.
Finally Matador Light + source code is ready.
We made our own 3D translators.

http://www.arkadin.biz/matadorlight

Matador Light V1.02 -- 1/5/2005

- Fixed fov - focal length bug
- Smoothing Threshold
- Change import library, now 3ds , obj, lwo with options
- Added Sphere Mapping
- Added file formats in object loader
- Added "work in progress" image for collision detection
- Added caustics params
- Fixed rendering of unassigned materials
- Fixed "Maximun Bounces" option
- Todo UV support
- Copy materials in material editor
- Fixed errors in cubic mapping

-bugs: older scenes compatibility ( we fix it in a few days)

I hope it will be useful.

David Rossmann

[Kabe]

C4D format will not happen, simply because it's not documentetd.

It makes more sense in terms of future compatibility to write out the neccessary information in a structured way from Cinema using the Cinema SDK than to write an importer anyway.
Plugins usually survive a few version steps, while the format may change on any version.

Kabe

[Becco_UK]

daros: Thank you for updating Matador Light.

[daros]

Hi Construsol,
Are you exporting the 3DS from Autocad?
If yes remove Backround Bitmaps.

David Rossmann

[daros]

Hi,
this is 100 MB FTP for MatadorMlight.

ftp://arkadin.biz
user: ml
pass: ml

or from internet explorer

ftp://ml@ml:arkadin.biz

If you can share the 3D files with importing problems please copy them into the correct folder in a subdirectory with your nik name.

ex:

incompatible-3D-files/3ds/daros/house.3ds



So it will be easy for us to fix the bug.

thanks

David Rossmann

[oz42]

Daros,

I'm having problems importing XSI files into MatadorLight. Julien Confalonierie says that it used to work but the XSI option has dissapeared in 1.02.

I've tried exporting from XSI as obj but no luck there either I just get the message:-
"Info System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array."

Any ideas. I'm desperate to get XSI rendering with Maxwell. Your software seem the only solution at the moment.

Thanks,

[Julien Confalonierie]

Hi.
It is true that there's a problem importing .obj files generated with XSI into the latest version of Matador.
A workaround: Use a 3D converter utility (ex: Biturn http://mirex.mypage.sk/index.php?selected=1 and reexport to a new .obj file or whatever accepted by Matador.

[daros]

If you put the file on the FTP we can fix the OBJ problem.

David Rossmann

[daros]

Hi guys,
sorry.
we just fixed the obj problem.
if you download the install files again it works.

http://www.arkadin.biz/matadorlight

Thanks oz42 for the files.

David Rossmann

[daros]

Hi, you can add or remove materials with the right button click on the material list.

David Rossmann

[daros]

Hi again.
more obj bug fixes.
UV support for OBJ files.
Other 3DS bug fixed.

http://www.arkadin.biz/matadorlight/

David Rossmann

[Maximus3D]

Hiya and thanx for the updates to this excellent piece of software
However.. can't the rotation of the objects and/or camera be fixed somehow, now u have to rotate the objects u import before u export them from your other 3d program or else it's really tricky to get them aligned and set up properly in the camera view. And sometimes the scale of the imported objects is soooo much off that they're almost invisible, so tiny. A sorta "autofocus" button that automatically zooms into your imported objects would be helpful.
That's about all i can think of now, most trouble causes the rotation of the camera/objects..

Keep up the good work!

/ Max

[Becco_UK]

I'm having a problem with .obj files exported from Cinema4D using Riptide as the exporting tool.

In the first version of MatadorLight the layer names would be the same as the materials I had applied to the various objects in the scene.

With the revised version only one material is being identified and applied to all objects, thus I end up with one layer in Matador light.

I have tried many different ways to export the .obj file from C4D and the problem is always the same.

[bakbek]

I can't add new materials ! ! ! somehow this function is not working. what can i do to fix this ?

[Becco_UK]

bakbek: I've encountered the problem of not being able to add new materials too - usually not showing in the assign list when I wish to use a new material.

Because of the 'obj import problem I tried exporting a simpel scene as a .3ds file. The layers where created properly. However, I'm having problems when trying to make an emitter - most times when this is applied, to my emitter object, no light is emitted. I have tried high power settings and different kinds of emitter. I have tried one poly planes, a cube and a low res' sphere as the emitter object and neither gave out any light (normal direction is ok).